Well, first of all - riraito, I finally received your parcel today. It only took it about three weeks to get from Saint-Petersburg to Moscow... Damn Russian post))
But anyway, now Holo's finally got Kraft by her side) So just posting a quick pic to...

Well I finally got my acceptance letter email from the university I wanted to transfer to the most. I guess I really will be transfering into UCSC this fall semester.
I've waited for this day to come; finally I feel like I'm moving forward, (...

Just recently Ashley Wood announced that ThreeA will be selling a WWRp (1/12) Armstrong figure with all proceeds being donated towards the situation in Japan, and all of ThreeA's Japanese costumers will also be given one as a gift!
Some quotes fro...

Alright, the situation over in Japan is looking pretty bleak right now. The death toll continues to shoot up (current estimates are that it'll reach 10,000 before this is over). So most Japanese companies have higher priorities right now than releasi...

Today I went to visit my dentist. Some of my teeth were bothering me and it turned out I had cavitys, He fixed me right up. This dentist is a bit far away but is worth the trip as he is really good, But my favorite part is he is located near two of t...

Here you can donate money to Shelter Box, an international disaster relief charity that specialises in emergency shelter. Right now they are fund-raising to help people in Japan.
Здесь можно пожертвовать деньги благотворительной организации Sh...

As we literally pick up the pieces here at HLJ, we're all counting our blessings. None of our staff or their families were hurt in the quake. Our building is undamaged structurally. Its contents just got scrambled.
Calling a natural catastro...

So my partner and I are dressing up as Beauty and the Beast, based on the Jim Shore wooden statues that you can usually find at the Hallmark Store. I realize it's not anime, but with Kingdom Hearts and such, Disney princess cosplay has been accepted...

As mentioned before - the office of Good Smile Company is damaged by earthquake. So it can affect some release dates in March (hope the release of figma BGS will be in time (23rd of March).
Today Hobby Link Japan, located in Tochigi, posted a new...

GSC updated their website with info about Touhou girls.
New pics of Nendoroid Cirno
Price: 3000Yen
Release date: July 2011
And new release date for Marisa and Reimu is June 2011
Now I can't even count how many releases we have in June...

Nendoroid Airi is available for pre-orders now (2600Y at AmiAmi)
Price: 3500Yen
Release date: June 2011
She is a bit plain and has only two faces, but her maid outfit is cute (and twintails moe >.<)
Do you like nendo Airi?

March 9th is something of a special day for Vocaloid fans. As 3/9 can be pronounced as "Mi-ku" in moonspeak, Crypton has declared it to be Miku day! In addition to the annual concerts, plenty of new Miku merchandise goes up for order. In ad...

As you've probably guessed by the photos that I posted on Saturday, I received another Busou Shinki figure in the mail. This time, the figure that I received is of Raptias, the Eagle type.
When it came to Raptias, I became interested in picking he...

Finally Mikatan showed Nendoroid Cirno =3
More iformation will be announced in a couple of days. More pics here.
So guys, do you like Cirno's nendo-form?
I'm a bit dissapointed with her faces, both style and expressions look very ordinar...

Yesterday I the first part of my main February order (only other thing I actually got in February was revoltech ymir) For whatever reason HLJ decided to split up the boxes, this one mostly contained stuff I got from a sale. Prize figures of Nia and M...

Well, the past 9 days or so have made up for the recent dearth of releases in a big way - all the major manufacturers shipped a lot of items out. The natural response is to list them!
Nendoroid Ui Hirasawa
Manufacturer: Good Smile Company
Orig...

So another semester begins, I' am eagerly waiting for my wonderful or dreadful acceptance letter to the university which I will be transfered to. However, instead of getting that letter I received a interesting package...
Well I got a hold of Buso...

Recently I just made it past 1000 posts I don't think I've ever made this many posts on a single site before. This is quite amazing for someone who is as shy as I am. On most sites I join I rarely make it past making an introduction post so 1000 is r...

Received a package today, so happy *-*
Получила сегодня посылочку от Ноданоши, чему дико рада *-*
The main item is Revoltech Suzuki, my first action figure *-* Spent about 4 hours playing with him and I'm begining to understand people who have...

Can someone tell me how can I check the Kyoto Animation figure to be shure that this is not a bootleg?
Should there be any kind of holographic stickers around the box, or anything like that..
I'm talking especially about the K-On! Ending Ve...

First off, I want to apologize for the lack of articles over the last week or so. I came down with the flu, which complicated things. Anyway, updates will be resuming as usual now, but I'll list the new items that went up for order and were released...

ThreeA have just announced the dates for their main releaseis of March. They are Tomorrow King Wassabi (from the Popbot universe) and Barguest de Plume from World War Robot. Bolth figures are 1/6.
Wassabi goes on sale, on March 11, 9:00 AM hong ko...

All in all today was a rather shitty day - but hey, in the end something nice always comes up) Today I finally received a figurine I pre-ordered in September - almost half a year ago! And it's cute cute cute))) Everyone welcome Rogue from the X-men!

Todays guest on Mikatan's desk is Nendoroid Riela from PSP game Valkyria Chronicles 3!
Riela's outfit is really cute =)
What a pose x)
She has only two faceplates, normal and angry, not very interesting.
Buying Nendoroid Riela you...

Yesterday arrived another package from Hobby Search. I've ordered [Angel Beats!] Wrist Band [SSS] & [K-ON!] Phone strap [Hirasawa Yui] so, I've decided to post some photos of the new stuff ^_^
It was a surprize for me to see that Yui is made fr...

Mikatan posted another nendo-preview, this time is Nendoroid Sherlock Shellingford (anime ver.)!
Previous Sherlock's nendoroid was bundled with PSP game, this time it's a regular edition.
Here is anime ver. Sherlock (left) and game ver. (ri...

Now for the second part of my Katsucon report: the cosplay pictures.
After a lack of interesting the previous year (I think that can be blamed on the blizzard that hit the Washington D. C. area days before the convention), there was plenty of phot...

Hello, minna-san!
I finally got my long-awaited figure of Hei from Darker than Black. I'm not very fond of action figures, but this is really amazing Though buying him affected my wallet badly, I'm not regretting it at all. These damn exclusives!

Ok, today is Stocking's turn ^___^
The third way to preorder nendoroids Panty and Stocking that was mentioned before is to order special meal in GSC Cafe =) For 4000Yen you will get your meal and blank to preorder one of th...

I wanted to show you another pic that I've made for St Valentine's Day contest. The figurines are the same so it would've been a spoiler if I'd shown it sooner))
Of course I'm a shitty photographer and my camera is far from being perfect... since...

Well, yesterday was a very, very slow news day. But now I'm glad that I waited 'til today to see if anything notable would crop up, as it most definitely did.
>gir before being stepped on.jpg
Impending_Sky already said pretty much all ther...

Gift posted photos and info about their nendoroid Kudryavka Noumi (Winter Uniform version)!
Isn't she cute with such blue eyes and small fangs? *__*
She comes with her dog and frisbee =3
Without her cap and cloak)
This face is cut...

Todays Mikatan's post is about Nendoroid Panty!
She comes with her pet)
This expression is my favourite x)
These guns could turn her panties into Backlace (though I don't know what it is ^^'), and her panties is removable too >.<...

This past weekend was President's Day weekend, and for an anime fan who lives in the Washington DC area, that also means Katsucon, the start of the anime convention season in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area. As usual, I made a few trips to the Dealers'...

ThreeA has just announced their next figure to go up for preorder. It's Mongrol from the clasic 2000AD comic ABC Warriors. He is 1/6 scale and will be available in both standard and "black" colors.
Mongrol will go on sale on Feb 28t...

New pictures of nendoroid Totori from Mikatan's blog =3
She made with clear plastic to look more transparent like on official Kishida Mel's illustrations
Little homunculus comes with Totori =3
Cute crying face and sitting legs ^__^...

Good lord, this really was a slow week for releases. Only three things of note showed up, two of which were spillover from last month (oh, GSC, you and your delays~). I even tried delaying the article by a day in the hope that something new would pop...

After the failed experiment of taking pictures yesterday, I thought I'd try using some of the other settings. I've never tried most of them because the only hint to what they are is strange illustrations for example whats the difference between the &...

Today (possibly yesterday depending on when I finish writing this post) I received an order from Mandarake it was a bit of an impulse buy. My parents had given me money for valentines day and instead of being a responsible adult and saving the money...